My spelling and syntax have become noticeably more international with the Internet. I've become more sensitive to the way other people communicate, so despite having always lived in Missouri, I feel that I don't really speak American English anymore.

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"It is remarkable that what we call the world...in what professes to be true...will allow in one man no blemishes, and in another no virtue."--Charles Dickens

So what does that mean? Your sentences all end with eh and you wonder when Quebec will decide to attempt secession again? <--- (joking of course)

-Nick

It means...

As a Canadian, you have to be extra vigilant. There are a lot of impostors out there. If you suspect that someone is falsely trying to pass themselves off as a Canadian, make the following statement - and then carefully note their reaction:

"Last night, I cashed my pogey and went to buy a mickey of C.C. at the beer parlour, but my skidoo got stuck in the muskeg on my way back to the duplex. I was trying to deke out a deer, you see. Damn chinook, melted everything. And then a Mountie snuck up behind me in a ghost car and gave me an impaired. I was S.O.L., sitting there dressed only in my Stanfields and a toque at the time. And the Mountie, he's all chippy and everything, calling me a "**** disturber" and what not. What could I say, except, "Sorry, EH!"

If the person you are talking to nods sympathetically, they're one of us. If, however, they stare at you with a blank incomprehension, they are not a real Canadian. Have them reported to the authorities at once.

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“Find the door of your heart, and you will discover it is the door to the kingdom of God.” - St. John Chrysostom

So what does that mean? Your sentences all end with eh and you wonder when Quebec will decide to attempt secession again? <--- (joking of course)

-Nick

It means...

As a Canadian, you have to be extra vigilant. There are a lot of impostors out there. If you suspect that someone is falsely trying to pass themselves off as a Canadian, make the following statement - and then carefully note their reaction:

"Last night, I cashed my pogey and went to buy a mickey of C.C. at the beer parlour, but my skidoo got stuck in the muskeg on my way back to the duplex. I was trying to deke out a deer, you see. Damn chinook, melted everything. And then a Mountie snuck up behind me in a ghost car and gave me an impaired. I was S.O.L., sitting there dressed only in my Stanfields and a toque at the time. And the Mountie, he's all chippy and everything, calling me a "**** disturber" and what not. What could I say, except, "Sorry, EH!"

If the person you are talking to nods sympathetically, they're one of us. If, however, they stare at you with a blank incomprehension, they are not a real Canadian. Have them reported to the authorities at once.

On a related note, my step father's caregiver, a Jamaican, was shocked when I pointed out that Elizabeth II was NOT the Queen of the U.S. too (it came up when I made a reference to "your queen" meeting with the President).

On a further tangent: when I was in Quebec, I remarked to my sons how the Quebecois are the only French in the World to be continuously under a monarch.

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On a related note, my step father's caregiver, a Jamaican, was shocked when I pointed out that Elizabeth II was NOT the Queen of the U.S. too (it came up when I made a reference to "your queen" meeting with the President).

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So what does that mean? Your sentences all end with eh and you wonder when Quebec will decide to attempt secession again? <--- (joking of course)

-Nick

Do not mess with Canadians

After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks. - Farley Mowat

It means...

As a Canadian, you have to be extra vigilant. There are a lot of impostors out there. If you suspect that someone is falsely trying to pass themselves off as a Canadian, make the following statement - and then carefully note their reaction:

"Last night, I cashed my pogey and went to buy a mickey of C.C. at the beer parlour, but my skidoo got stuck in the muskeg on my way back to the duplex. I was trying to deke out a deer, you see. Damn chinook, melted everything. And then a Mountie snuck up behind me in a ghost car and gave me an impaired. I was S.O.L., sitting there dressed only in my Stanfields and a toque at the time. And the Mountie, he's all chippy and everything, calling me a "**** disturber" and what not. What could I say, except, "Sorry, EH!"

If the person you are talking to nods sympathetically, they're one of us. If, however, they stare at you with a blank incomprehension, they are not a real Canadian. Have them reported to the authorities at once.

On a related note, my step father's caregiver, a Jamaican, was shocked when I pointed out that Elizabeth II was NOT the Queen of the U.S. too (it came up when I made a reference to "your queen" meeting with the President).

On a further tangent: when I was in Quebec, I remarked to my sons how the Quebecois are the only French in the World to be continuously under a monarch.

It's just cuz these uppity colonials think they are actually a nation....

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“Find the door of your heart, and you will discover it is the door to the kingdom of God.” - St. John Chrysostom

So what does that mean? Your sentences all end with eh and you wonder when Quebec will decide to attempt secession again? <--- (joking of course)

-Nick

It means...

As a Canadian, you have to be extra vigilant. There are a lot of impostors out there. If you suspect that someone is falsely trying to pass themselves off as a Canadian, make the following statement - and then carefully note their reaction:

"Last night, I cashed my pogey and went to buy a mickey of C.C. at the beer parlour, but my skidoo got stuck in the muskeg on my way back to the duplex. I was trying to deke out a deer, you see. Damn chinook, melted everything. And then a Mountie snuck up behind me in a ghost car and gave me an impaired. I was S.O.L., sitting there dressed only in my Stanfields and a toque at the time. And the Mountie, he's all chippy and everything, calling me a "**** disturber" and what not. What could I say, except, "Sorry, EH!"

If the person you are talking to nods sympathetically, they're one of us. If, however, they stare at you with a blank incomprehension, they are not a real Canadian. Have them reported to the authorities at once.

LoL! We rule.

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As a result of a thousand million years of evolution, the universe is becoming conscious of itself, able to understand something of its past history and its possible future.-- Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS

Maintenance of the board should be outsourced to India, and then will truly be American.

There's a joke about Columbus in here somewhere.

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If you will, you can become all flame.Extra caritatem nulla salus.In order to become whole, take the "I" out of "holiness". सर्वभूतहितἌνω σχῶμεν τὰς καρδίας"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is." -- Mohandas GandhiY dduw bo'r diolch.

It's just cuz these uppity colonials think they are actually a nation....

Any thought on this, ozgeorge?

I was referring to the USA...technically any country with the Queen as their Head of State is a subject of the Commonwealth, and thus one nation....in a way at least.

Actually no, a personal union.

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Maintenance of the board should be outsourced to India, and then will truly be American.

I actually read that India is outsourcing to Romania. I kid you not.

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Question a friend, perhaps he did not do it; but if he did anything so that he may do it no more.A hasty quarrel kindles fire,and urgent strife sheds blood.If you blow on a spark, it will glow;if you spit on it, it will be put out; and both come out of your mouth

Maintenance of the board should be outsourced to India, and then will truly be American.

I actually read that India is outsourcing to Romania. I kid you not.

Gypsies are from India, you know.

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If you will, you can become all flame.Extra caritatem nulla salus.In order to become whole, take the "I" out of "holiness". सर्वभूतहितἌνω σχῶμεν τὰς καρδίας"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is." -- Mohandas GandhiY dduw bo'r diolch.

Maintenance of the board should be outsourced to India, and then will truly be American.

I actually read that India is outsourcing to Romania. I kid you not.

Gypsies are from India, you know.

Yes, and I thought of that immediately when I read the news (my Romanian ex has a lot of issues about being taken for a "tiganca").

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Question a friend, perhaps he did not do it; but if he did anything so that he may do it no more.A hasty quarrel kindles fire,and urgent strife sheds blood.If you blow on a spark, it will glow;if you spit on it, it will be put out; and both come out of your mouth